Remember When: You first heard the pharmacy school question?

If you’re a pharmacist, you’ve undoubtedly heard the question, Are there too many
pharmacy schools? We addressed it in our June 2009 cover story, “Betting on the pharmacy
boom, building the future.”

As that story pointed out, the answer to the question varies greatly—as it does today—depending
on the person answering it. In that article, the dean of the pharmacy school at Touro
University California pointed to statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services that predicted a 38,000 shortage of pharmacists by 2030.